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"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hus

Compelling, comprehensive, and accessible, Lewis and Lewis's THE POWER OF ART, International Edition features an exciting new layout and gorgeous images. Studen

A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power. Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a fo

Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state

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